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kill windows service stuck at stopping

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Every infracture admin need to know the steps to force stop or kill windows service stuck at stopping by pid using taskkill or powershell. Think about a situation, you are trying to stop a windows service but its stuck at stopping status. Means service stopping hung and not responding. In this case we need to force kill windows service either by using taskkill in command line (cmd) or by powershell. Follow the step by step commands to apply in cmd for force stop service windows server.

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Run command prompt as an administrator and type taskkill help command as below. That will display parameter list like /S, /U, /P, /FI, /PID, /IM, /T, /F, /? and why these are used. You will find these parameters in the commands below.

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kill windows service command line

taskkill /?
kill windows service using taskkill windows command line
kill windows service using taskkill windows command line
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kill process id using taskkill windows command line
kill process id using taskkill windows command line
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First step is to identify the “Service name” of windows service stuck at stopping. Let’s say windows update service stuck at stopping, then right click on the service and click on properties will show you the service name “wuauserv”. Alterenatively, you can run powershell command “Get-Service” to get windows service details. Run the below command in command prompt to get the PID of service.

sc queryex <service name>
sc queryex wuauserv
windows service properties service name
windows service properties service name
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sc queryex wuauserv
sc queryex wuauserv

You can check the PID in “Task manager” under the the tab “Services”.

PID in Task manager
PID in Task manager
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Next step is to kill windows service PID running below cmd in command prompt.

taskkill /f /pid [PID]
taskkill /f /pid 996
taskkill /f /pid
taskkill /f /pid
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You will find the service is stopped after applying the command above. You can disable the serivce else apply the state as per your requirement.

windows update service stopped how to disable
windows update service stopped how to disable
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You can kill processes from command prompt without knowing the PID by running the below command.

taskkill /F /FI "SERVICES eq wuauserv"
taskkill /F /FI "SERVICES eq wuauserv"
taskkill /F /FI “SERVICES eq wuauserv”
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You can force stop a service running with particular user id using below cmd.

taskkill /F /FI "USERNAME eq Deviprasad"

cmd to task kill all windows services not respnding running as below.

taskkill /F /FI "status eq not responding"
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You can kill services consuming more then a limit of memory usage following the command below.

taskkill /FI "memusage gt value"
taskkill /FI "memusage gt 220600"
kill pid memusage gt
kill pid memusage gt
kill service memusage gt
kill service memusage gt
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Run the cmd as below to get list of tasks running in server.

tasklist
tasklist
tasklist
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we can run the below cmd to kill task running in the server.

taskkill /F /IM taskmgr.exe
taskkill /F /IM taskmgr.exe
taskkill /F /IM taskmgr.exe
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End task using powershell

We can use below powershell commands to kill windows service.

Stop-Process -ID ProcessID - Force
Stop-Process -ID 6196 - Force
Stop-Process -Name ProcessName -Force
Stop-Process -Name iexplorer -Force
kill service or pid usinf powershell
kill service or pid usinf powershell
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powershell command to force kill services not responding.

Get-WmiObject -Class win32_service | Where-Object {$_.state -eq 'stop pending'}
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Watch the video to get details step by step for better understanding.

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sharepoint service instance start stop stuck

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How to manage sharepoint service instance using powershell ? You can manage service instance in like starting service instance, stopping service instance. If sharepoint service stuck unprovisioning or provisioning, you have to use powershell to resolve the error. You can remove delete instance mostly search service instance by getting service instance id or using get-spserviceinstance by name powershell command. Status of serivice instance will change to disabled or online after running powershell. you can unprovision duplicate service instances by identifying instance id using powershell.

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Run below powershell command to get all services instances

Get-SPServiceInstance | Sort TypeName
sharepoint service instance id
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powershell command to get a specific service instance below

Get-SPServiceInstance -Identity 431394e7-df13-4784-af78-719789210fdc # GUID of User Profile Service
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start specific service instance powershell command as below

Start-SPServiceInstance -Identity 431394e7-df13-4784-af78-719789210fdc # GUID of User Profile Service
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stop instance in sharepoint using powershell command mentioned below

Stop-SPServiceInstance -Identity 431394e7-df13-4784-af78-719789210fdc # GUID of User Profile Service
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provision/start – service instance

you can provision or start service instance running any one of the powershell command mentioned below

Get-SPServiceInstance | Where-Object {$_.TypeName -eq "User Profile Service"} | select Status, Id

Get-SPServiceInstance | Where-Object {$_.Id -eq "431394e7-df13-4784-af78-719789210fdc"} # GUID of User Profile Service

Get-SPServiceInstance | where {$_.Status -eq "online" -and $_.TypeName -eq "User Profile Service" } | Sort TypeName | Format-Table TypeName,Id,Server
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unprovision/stop – service instance

you can unprovision or stop sevice instance using any one of the commands below

$srvc = Get-SPServiceInstance “431394e7-df13-4784-af78-719789210fdc” # GUID of User Profile Service
$srvc.Unprovision()

$srvc = Get-SPServiceInstance -Server WIN-56R9D2TBFOB | where-object {$_.TypeName -eq “User Profile Service”}
$srvc.Unprovision()

Get-SPServiceInstance | Where-Object {$_.Id -eq "431394e7-df13-4784-af78-719789210fdc"} | Stop-SPServiceInstance | Format-Table -AutoSize # GUID of User Profile Service

Get-SPServiceInstance -Server WIN-56R9D2TBFOB | where-object {$_.TypeName -eq “User Profile Service”} | Stop-SPServiceInstance -confirm:$false > $null

You can get more details related to service application in sharepoint from the link “Service Applications in SharePoint“

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Watch the video to get step by step, more in detail

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unattached content database recover contents list library

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unattached content database – recover contents list library from is required while moving list or library as content migration. You can recover files from content database that is not attached to any web application in sharepoint 2019. Recovering data from content database unattached will restore only specific list library in sharepoint site. Follow the step by step procedure to recover list library from sharepoint content database not attached.

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  • Navigate to central admin in sharepoint 2019.
  • Select “Backup and Restore” from left navigation and click on “Recover data from an unattached content database” present under “Granular backup”.
recover contents list library from unattached content database
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  • Select “Database Server”.
  • Select “Database Name” which is unattached to any web application.
  • select the radio button “Export site or list”, if you want to export list or library from unattached content database.
  • Choose radio button “Backup site collection” to export site collection from content database unattached.
recover files from content database that is not attached
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  • Select site collection present in the unattached content database.
  • choose site from the site collection selected above.
  • Select list or library that you want to recover or restore.
select site list library in sharepoint from contact database unattached
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After that, follow the same procedure described in previous post “export import list library sites in sharepoint” to import list or library described once export is completed.

Import-SpWeb -Identity "site url in which you want to import list" -Path "exported item saved location" -IncludeUserSecurity -UpdateVersions Overwrite -verbose

Import-SpWeb -Identity "site url in which you want to import library" -Path "exported item saved location" -IncludeUserSecurity -UpdateVersions Overwrite -verbose
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watch the video to get in detail step by step

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